“Gender fluidity? Bowie never did it for shock effect or as style, but simply as an honest expression of the multitudes he contained, and he existed as a persona beyond any binary idea of what sexuality could be. I can’t imagine how important he was to people who felt genuinely different or unloveable or outside, and what made him truly significant was the way he never seemed to care what anyone thought about the person he projected. He expected the culture to keep up with him, and if it didn’t, that was the culture’s fault. He was vast.”